Tony McCaffery (he/they) is Founder of Diversity Scotland - a leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEl) consultancy that supports organisations to attract, hire, engage, and develop diverse talent, and to be representative of the communities in which they operate. Tony specialises in working with organisational and community leaders to foster inclusion and create a sense of belonging for people who are often under-represented, marginalised or minoritised. Through his work he also advises politicians, publicly appointed individuals, and third-sector workers on how to take meaningful and impactful action on DEl.
Diversity Scotland is a certified member of the Minority Supplier Development Network (MSDUK) which is part of the Global Supplier Diversity Alliance (GSDA).
With 29 years' experience in People & Talent, Tony has achieved success as a leader in HR, L&D, Employability, and Recruitment. He has worked with large global corporations through to small UK businesses across the public, private, and voluntary sectors, to advise them through 'disruptive consultation', coaching, facilitated group learning and the implementation of practical solutions that drive change and make a difference.
A regular contributor in the media, Tony has featured in a number of radio and television programmes where diversity and equity have been the focus. He regularly undertakes speaking engagements for global businesses and NGOs, on a range of related topics.
Tony is also CEO and Chair of Acting Cubed Theatre Company, Co-Chair of arts charity Company of Others, COO of Ormus Arts, and an Advisory Board Member of Scottish Government's Covid Memorial Arts Programme; Remembering Together.
As a proud Queer, multi-ethnic Person of Colour, with disabilities and neurodivergence, he integrates these intersectional characteristics along with his own lived experience of childhood homelessness, the foster care system and social mobility into his work. His ethnic heritage is a delightful mix of Indian, Somalian, Celtic and Indigenous Circumpolar people.
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Gamal Turawa or ‘G’ as he likes to be called is the owner and lead facilitator for PurpleFrog-Connections Ltd a Diversity,Dignity and Inclusion consultancy.
G has a rich background that has included fostering, child abuse and homelessness to mention but a few of his childhood experiences. His personal story is one of resilience and hope. It forms the foundation upon which he draws his strength and determination to contribute to creating a fairer more inclusive society for all.
In 1992 he joined London’s Metropolitan police and was selected to be part of the first Positive Action Team in the UK Police tasked with implementing the recruitment and retention recommendations of the Stephen Lawrence report.
From there he went on to become one of the first Met Police diversity facilitators and one of very few Black officers delivering the programme at the time. At that time the police had a very intensive support and training programme for trainers which included a six week residential deeply experiential trainers course along with FIRO S F and B. He also completed a three year facilitator’s programme which included Gestalt methodology combined with the work of John Heron and Carl Rogers amongst others.
He then went on to a five year secondment at the National Police Improvement Agency where he delivered the Positive Action Leadership Programme, a ground breaking workshop that was specifically aimed at minority group in the Police teaching leadership, communication, conflict resolution and career planning skills.
He also designed and delivered D+I workshops for senior police leaders across the country and to police leaders from across the globe.
He then became an associate facilitator for the Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna and through them has delivered workshops across Europe. For the past 8 years he has delivered Step 2 of the Central European Police College (CEPOL) ‘Managing Diversity Workshop.’
He left the police service in 2018 to focus on his consultancy which has expanded into work in the private sector delivery keynote presentations and workshop covering Allyship, Anti-Racism, Dignity and is also a D+I coach.
He is a member of the Association of Facilitators and graduate of the Institute for the Development of Human Potential and the Hoffman Process.
His main focus is on self awareness and personal responsibility.
Along the way he also became the first openly Black police officer.
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Website: www.purplefrog-connections.com
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Toby helps companies be more inclusive of the diverse UK talent pool and breadth of human experience by reengineering business processes and addressing cultural barriers.
Before establishing his own D&I practice Toby served as D&I Manager for Deloitte and the BBC. Toby is also a qualified Corporate & Executive Coach and NLP Practitioner with Neuroscience.
Toby has over a decade of management experience on international projects working with the BBC, Accenture, British Airways, Cerner, Vodafone, Microsoft, BT and Ofcom.
Melanie as Co-Chair of the ShineLGBT+ Network has played a significant part in helping Fujitsu climb 66 places from 2018 to be awarded #34 in the Stonewall Top100 employer for 2019. This has Included improving support for trans employees, increasing visibility, senior leader engagement and empowering allies. In December 2018 she was appointed as chair for the Fujitsu ShineLGBT+ network and is also growing the network across the organisation in EMEIA and wider. Mel is also involved in a steering group to address faith\belief inclusion within Fujitsu too.
Mel has run a variety of local youth groups, amateur dramatics although her career was in technology, she is passionate about people and investing in them to achieve their potential. After a prolonged period in hospital her dad lost both legs because of diabetes, Mel found a new appreciation of the struggles of disabled people and their carers. Mel became actively involved in Fujitsu’s staff networks for cultural diversity, SEED (Support & Engage Employees with Disabilities), Shine LGBT+ and Women’s Business Network as an advocate to equality.
Mel lives up in Cumbria she loves her doggies, walking and drinking a nice cup of hot tea.
Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE is an author, consultant, facilitator and coach.
She is a former civil servant and has undertaken leadership roles in various policy and strategic positions across Whitehall, including working with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries.
In 2012, Cherron took a leap of faith and left the Civil Service to follow her passion; staff networks. After publishing her book: The Incredible Power of Staff Networks, Cherron founded The Power of Staff Networks consultancy where she provides a wide range of services.
She is passionate about staff networks and the positive impact these can have on the individual and the organisation. That is why Cherron founded the National Day for Staff Networks - the first of its kind celebrating the added value of networks.
During her career, she has achieved a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, and a Masters Degree in Employment Studies and Human Resource Management. She studied with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and is also a qualified career coach with the Institute of Leadership and Management.
Clients include: Civil Service, NHS England, British Land, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, University of Warwick and Peabody. See here for testimonials about Cherron’s work. In addition to staff networks, Cherron speaks on career development, leadership and her journey from being ‘overlooked to becoming overbooked’.
Cherron is also a Non-Executive Director at Homerton University Hospital, an associate consultant for PDT Global and, advisory friend to the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals. In 2011, Cherron received an MBE for her services to HM Government and for her work in the faith community with young people.
Ian Dodds has over 25 years of experience of working in the fields of equalities diversity and inclusion, change management and coaching and leadership development in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. He runs his own consultancy business, Ian Dodds Consulting (IDC), which has over 50 experienced affiliate consultants worldwide, ensuring that they can provide worldwide support and best practice expertise.
IDC's global alliance partners are state of the art equalities, diversity and inclusion, change management, theatre, visual thinking, distance learning, diagnostics and software practitioners and help to keep their consulting at the cutting edge. Their clients come from the commercial, professional and public sectors and range from small organisations with under 50 employees to multi-national corporations, requiring global support, and major government departments, e.g. Coca Cola, Dixons Group, Economist Group, Goldman Sachs, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Linklaters, McDonalds, Philips, Pitney Bowes, Sainsbury’s, Sodexho, Cabinet Office, Defra, Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
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Ian Dodds has considerable experience of equalities, diversity and inclusion strategy formulation and accompanying training. Furthermore, as Group Head of Organisation and People Development in ICI (then the largest chemicals company in the world), Ian Dodds was previously responsible for, and involved in, raising the cross-cultural capability of its top 1500 executives world-wide. IDC has been the principal advisor to the London Development Agency on equalities and diversity best practices to support the Mayor’s flagship programme 'Diversity Works for London' (DWfL) which is twinned with the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s equivalent programme, the Rainbow Push Coalition, in the USA.
Caroline spent 21 years as a Police Officer qualifying to Inspector level. She has always had a desire to challenge the status quo and seek alternative ways of identifying talent in under-represented groups. Whilst the youngest female Sergeant in North Yorkshire Police she founded and Chaired the NYP Women's Network supporting and championing women in the Police service. Her focus changed in 2012 when her son was diagnosed with autism. She then founded All Things Autism and subsequently Neurodiversity which received the support of Chief Officers. After retiring in 2017 she continued as the Lead for Neurodiversity for the Police and sits on North Yorkshire Council's Autism Steering Group, City of York's Employment Sub group for Autism and Pro Autism in University York St John. She is passionate about workspace inclusivity for all.
She was recently described as a social and cultural translator for people with autism and works with businesses across the country on their Neurodiveristy portfolios.
Caroline now speaks nationally on Neurodiversity and, along with her team, supports businesses who wish to create inclusive polices and procedures for recruitment, retention and progression of those who think differently.
Joanne Lockwood
Transgender Awareness and Inclusion Specialist
In 2017, Joanne Lockwood founded SEE Change Happen, an Equality Diversity & Inclusion Practice focusing on LGBT+ and more specifically providing transgender awareness and support to organisations and businesses all over the UK. Joanne is the first openly transgender past National President of the 90-year-old ‘Men’s Club’, The Round Table.
In 2016 she embarked on her personal rebrand, selling her IT services business and transitioning at the beginning of 2017. Through these experiences, she delivers keynote speeches, seminars and workshops to promote and support transgender individuals breaking down misunderstandings and the fear of “getting it wrong”.
Her mantra is Smile, Engage and Educate and she passionately believes that “people are people” and, no matter who they are, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Website: https://seechangehappen.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jo_lockwood1965
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolockwood/
Roland is a recognised Disability Development Consultant, with a passion for people; helping them to achieve success and overcome the challenges they face.
A consultant, trainer, coach, mediator and speaker, combining his corporate expertise with his own personal experience, supporting organisations to create a more productive workforce, by developing happy and fulfilled employees. He is an empathetic advocate, supporting a number of not-for-profit organisations in a voluntary capacity and holds a fundamental conviction in the importance of genuinely making a difference.
He was Diversity & Equality Policy Adviser at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where he was also Chair of the Disability Staff Network, before setting up his own business, Luminate.
As well as being a Trustee of Disability Rights UK and Vice Chair of the National Long Term Survivors Group he is also
• Special Advisor on HIV and AIDs to the Business Disability Forum
• Sexual Health and Outreach Trainer for the Terrence Higgins Trust
• Community Champion for Scope
• Expert Patient
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Member of the Chartered Institute of Management and Associate Member of the CIPD and the Association for Coaching.
Recent clients have included Surrey County Council, The Quaker Society, Cruse, Scope, Headway, Business Disability Forum, Omniserve.
Kate Hollinshead has a BA Honours degree in Politics and German from the University of Bristol in 2005 and a Masters degree in Managing Equality and Diversity (Distinction) from London Metropolitan University. Starting her career with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Programme in Berlin, she then spent four years delivering equality training with the anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card, before joining EqualiTeach as Head of Education in 2013.
Kate has experience of delivering training to a wide variety of audiences, including schools, universities, Young Offenders Institutions, prisions, mental health institutions and Trade Unions. Kate has recently completed research into the experiences of transgender employees in UK workplaces and has written numerous guides for teachers on topics such as tackling disability-related bullying in primary schools and how to respond holistically to the requirement in promote Fundamental British Values in schools. In 2015, she became the Chair of Bedford Borough Council’s Equality and Diversity Network.
Mark Jennett is a trainer, consultant and writer specializing in work around equality and diversity (in particular gender and sexualities equalities), bullying, behaviour, emotional health and PSHE. He has provided training and other support for numerous schools, universities, local authorities and commercial organizations as well as the NUT and NASUWT, Stonewall and the Terrence Higgins Trust.
In recent years he has worked with the NUT, supporting primary schools to challenge traditional gender stereotypes through the curriculum. He also developed guidance for the Union on encouraging all children to read for pleasure by ensuring that they have access to books and stories that reflect and endorse their own identities and cultures and the variety of families that they come from.
He is currently working with the National Children’s Bureau on a DoE and GEO funded project supporting schools to challenge transphobic, homophobic and biphobic bullying.Other projects have included the provision of diversity training and other support to 15 primary schools engaged in the ESRC funded No Outsiders Project, which aimed to develop innovative approaches to addressing gender and sexualities equalities in primary education.
Mark has written and contributed to a range of publications including Undoing Homophobia In Primary Schools (Trentham Books, 2010) and contributed to the development of DfE guidance on homophobic bullying. He has also worked as a National Adviser with the National Healthy Schools Programme. He is on the board of the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education.
Pamela works as the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for the National Health Service (NHS) and is also a Specialist Advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC). She has worked in the field of EDI for over 20 years with experience in leadership roles (Non-Executive Director level), Chair of an Asian Women’s charity and Director of a Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) Mental Health supported housing subsidiary. Pamela was awarded the ‘Leader of Inclusivity 2016’ by NHS Leadership Academy, a national award which recognises how outstanding leadership has influenced the way in which equality and diversity good practice has been used to design services that meet the needs of the local communities. It also reflects the active promotion of equality within the workplace and the involvement and engagement of NHS staff.
Pamela was described at the award ceremony as an, ‘inspirational, exceptional example of inclusive leadership in action, and a widely respected, highly regarded role model. She hasn’t been afraid to take on difficult and challenging work in the field of inclusion, the results of which have been improved quality of care and greater engagement that’s both meaningful and sustained. When things have felt difficult, she has led the way and taken others with her.'
Pamela is a trained ILM Coach & Mentor and is active in her role within the Wessex Region.
Dr Leander Neckles is a high level, passionately committed, knowledgeable equalities professional and management consultant with a thirty year track record of delivering to advance equality, human rights and social justice at local, regional and national levels.
She has co-ordinated, supported and developed regional and national initiatives to support the implementation of the public sector equality duties (PSED) (1999-2015). She has extensive experience of analysing legislation and government policy proposals, briefing national organisations, co-ordinating and drafting response (e.g. on previous equality duties, the PSED, immigration, the Equality Act 2010) (1999 – 2015).
An experienced researcher, she was awarded a PhD in October 2015. Her thesis examines the effectiveness of the PSED, Judicial Review (JR) and accountability. At national level, as an equalities management consultant, trainer and activist, she engages with equalities, human rights and migrants' rights with NGOs and national networks (e.g. CORE, the Coalition for Race Equality Organisations and EDF, the Equality and Diversity Forum). Leander facilitates joint working, designs and delivers training, writes guidance and toolkits and is an experienced public speaker on discrimination, advancing equalities, human rights and social justice. She also advises on how to engage with VCOs, networks, peers and MPs on equalities-related legislative issues.
Michèle Taylor is committed to equality and diversity work as a pathway to developing organisations as learning cultures. To this end, she works with organisations and individuals as a trainer, consultant, evaluator and facilitator.
Michèle has over 25 years experience working in the arts and disability sector and is herself a disabled person. This informs her approach to learning, to evaluation and to inclusion.
She set up her own business in 1992 to work at that edge where disability and ‘the mainstream’ meet, training and advising organisations on making their practices, policies and premises inclusive of disabled people. Since then, her practice has broadened out to take good account of changes in the legislative approach and in recognition of equality and diversity principles as a whole.
Michèle is a qualified psychotherapist and accredited coach as well as an experienced trainer and facilitator.
She is a Registered Member of IEDP, having been one of the very first cohort to achieve this accrediation, and has recently re-registered to keep her membership up to date.
Clients have included Arts Council and local authorities as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House, Universities including Nottingham and Gothenberg and the University of the Arts in London, St John’s College in Nottingham, the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute and Cultural Heritage Without Borders where she is involved in supporting Museums in the Western Balkans to develop policy and practice around disability.
Since 1996 Robin Richardson has been a director of the Insted consultancy (www.insted.co.uk), specialising in equality and diversity in education.
Previously he was director of the Runnymede Trust (http://www.runnymedetrust.org/) and before that had been chief inspector for education in a London borough, adviser for multicultural education in a shire authority, and director of a curriculum development project in world studies and development education.
His publications over the years include Learning for Change in World Society (1976), Daring to be a Teacher (1990), In Praise of Teachers (2002), Holding Together: equalities, difference and cohesion (2009) and Changing Life Chances: projects and endeavours in schools (2012).
Also he has been the editor or co-editor of several publications on Islamophobia and British Muslims, including Islamophobia: a challenge for us all (1997), Young, Muslim and Citizen: identity, empowerment and change (2010), and Pointing the Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British media (2011).
In the period 2005–10 he worked frequently as a consultant for the Department for Education on aspects of equalities legislation.
In 2013—15 he acted as drafting editor and consultant for the report of the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss.
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